Sugar cane — Yield in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Sugar cane — Yield was 95,372 kg/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Sugar cane — Yield in Nicaragua, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Nicaragua recorded 95,372 kg/ha for sugar cane — yield in 2023.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.5% on the previous year and down 3.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sugar cane — yield in Nicaragua peaked at 100,685 kg/ha in 2012 and was at its lowest, 50,000 kg/ha, in 1963.
Nicaragua ranks 11th of 113 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55,293 kg/ha | 50,000 kg/ha | 61,815 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 61,573 kg/ha | 53,251 kg/ha | 69,013 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 60,954 kg/ha | 54,762 kg/ha | 68,504 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 65,881 kg/ha | 59,475 kg/ha | 73,315 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 83,283 kg/ha | 69,081 kg/ha | 93,674 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 93,681 kg/ha | 85,155 kg/ha | 100,685 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 95,437 kg/ha | 91,577 kg/ha | 99,862 kg/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near Nicaragua
- 8 Burkina Faso 101,402 kg/ha compare
- 9 Sudan (former) 100,119 kg/ha compare
- 10 El Salvador 95,809 kg/ha compare
- 12 Eswatini 92,233 kg/ha compare
- 13 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 91,950 kg/ha compare
- 14 Chad 91,588 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture share gdp 14.48 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 14.48 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 2.84 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.22 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 90,616 t (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sugar cane — yield in Nicaragua?
- Sugar cane — yield in Nicaragua was 95,372 kg/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sugar cane — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 100,685 kg/ha in 2012.
- What is the lowest sugar cane — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 50,000 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Nicaragua rank for sugar cane — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 11th out of 113 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sugar cane — yield rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sugar cane — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.